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A rendering of the changes expected along Spring St in downtown L.A., to be completed in 2018. The bike lanes will be relocated on the far-left side in the direction of traffic, separated from traffic by a lane of parked cars. Plus, a concrete "island" will protect pedestrians as they wait to cross.
LA City/Office of José Huizar

"One of the other things that will happen is all of the crosswalks will be changed into high-visibility crosswalks," she adds.

That's achieved by repainting them with parallel white stripes that run through the space to make them easier to see by drivers.

Hundreds of other projects like this will break ground in Los Angeles in the coming years, sometimes with resistance by residents.

"What a lot of advocates say is, 'Just give it some time, let's look at the data,'" says McCarty-Carino, "and then there's another camp that's just fed up with how this is affecting their communities and their commutes."